Sometimes you just need to disconnect and enjoy your own company. I enjoy interacting with people—but I also enjoy my own company. It is a wonderful feeling to spend time with myself, enjoying a sense of peace and silence with a cup of coffee, or doing something I like on my own. My Mom always found it amusing to see me quite happy being by myself, engrossed in something or other. As a child, even though I grew up in…
Come monsoon, I see most people heading to the beaches or taking a drive through the hills. But have you ever seen the beauty of the jungle in the rains? I am talking about Jim Corbett National Park. Imagine…
I am pleased to reveal the cover of Damyanti Biswas‘s debut crime novel, You Beneath Your Skin which will be launched this September by Simon & Schuster, India. I’ve known Damyanti for several years now—we were on the A to Z…
It is just one of those days. A somewhat weird day. I woke up enthusiastically enough, enjoyed my coffee and looked at my day’s to-do list. Finished my usual work in the kitchen – lunch, breakfast, dinner planning and…
STEM toys and STEM education are very popular in today’s competitive world and help encourage kids to develop skills in the core disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Playtime is not what it used to be. Let’s face…
We visited the Andaman Islands a few weeks ago. The trip was fascinating as it was different from the usual destination we pick – invariably somewhere in the hills. This time we thought, why not a change from the…
One of my favorite newsletters is from Brian Johnson of Optimize. In two of his recent newsletters, he talked about soul ulcers–referring to envy being the ulcer of the soul. The phrase “soul ulcers” stuck in my mind—along with…
